Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.